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'''Lawrence Francis Katz''' (born 1959) is Elisabeth Allison Professor of ] at ] and a Research Associate of the ].<ref name=biocv>{{cite web|title=Biographical Sketch|url=http://scholar.harvard.edu/lkatz/biocv|publisher=The President and Fellows of Harvard College|accessdate=17 December 2014}}</ref> In addition to being one of the most prominent labor economists of his generation,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.person.all.html|title=Economist Rankings {{!}} IDEAS/RePEc|last=zimmermann@stlouisfed.org|website=ideas.repec.org|access-date=2018-05-21}}</ref> he is also widely known as one of the most successful academic advisors in the discipline,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.person.students.html|title=Economist Rankings {{!}} IDEAS/RePEc|last=zimmermann@stlouisfed.org|website=ideas.repec.org|access-date=2018-05-21}}</ref> advising a large number of graduate students who later became prominent economists in their own right. '''Lawrence Francis Katz''' (born 1959) is Elisabeth Allison Professor of ] at ] and a Research Associate of the ].<ref name=biocv>{{cite web|title=Biographical Sketch|url=http://scholar.harvard.edu/lkatz/biocv|publisher=The President and Fellows of Harvard College|accessdate=17 December 2014}}</ref>


==Education and career== ==Education and career==

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Lawrence F. Katz
Born1959 (age 64–65)
Ann Arbor, Michigan
NationalityUnited States
Academic career
FieldLabor economics
InstitutionHarvard University
Alma materMIT (Ph.D.)
University of California, Berkeley (A.B.)
Doctoral
advisor
Henry Farber
Doctoral
students
David Weil
Jonathan Gruber
Jeffrey Liebman
Marianne Bertrand
Sendhil Mullainathan
David Autor
Justin Wolfers
Heidi Williams
Bridget Terry Long
Sandra Black
Information at IDEAS / RePEc
Websitehttps://scholar.harvard.edu/lkatz/home

Lawrence Francis Katz (born 1959) is Elisabeth Allison Professor of Economics at Harvard University and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Education and career

He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1981 and earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985.

He served as the chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor from 1993 to 1994 under Robert Reich, Bill Clinton’s then Secretary of Labor.

Along with fellow Harvard colleague Claudia Goldin, who is a "personal as well as research partner", Katz wrote The Race Between Education and Technology in 2008, which argued that the United States became the world’s richest nation thanks to its schools. It was praised as "a monumental achievement that supplies a unified framework for interpreting how the demand and supply of human capital have shaped the distribution of earnings in the U.S. labor market over the twentieth century", and Alan Krueger of Princeton University said that it "represent the best of what economics has to offer".

Katz has been editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics since 1991. He also serves as the Principal Investigator for the long-term evaluation of the "Moving to Opportunity", a randomized housing mobility experiment.

He is the co-Scientific Director of J-PAL North America, past President of the Society of Labor Economists, and has been elected a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, and the Society of Labor Economists. Katz serves on the Panel of Economic Advisers of the Congressional Budget Office as well as on the Boards of the Russell Sage Foundation and the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation.

References

  1. Changes in the structure of employer-provided health insurance
  2. https://www.aeaweb.org/content/file?id=580 An Interview with Marianne Bertrand, 2004 Elaine Bennett Research Award Winner
  3. Essays on the Changing Labor Market: Computerization, Inequality, and the Development of the Contingent Work Force: Dissertation Summary Retrieved September 24, 2016.
  4. WolfersCV
  5. Williams's CV
  6. Longs's CV
  7. Black's website
  8. ^ "Biographical Sketch". The President and Fellows of Harvard College. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
  9. Jonas, Michael (November 3, 2011). "Learning curve". CommonWealth magazine. No. Fall 2011/American Dream Special Issue.
  10. Kotkin, Stephen (October 5, 2008). "Minding the Inequality Gap". New York Times.
  11. Daron Acemoğlu; David Autor (June 2012). "What Does Human Capital Do? A Review of Goldin and Katz's The Race between Education and Technology". Journal of Economic Literature. 50 (2): 426–463. doi:10.1257/jel.50.2.426.
  12. "The Race between Education and Technology". Amazon.com. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
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